Professing Pacifism, “Hacksaw Ridge” Champions Carnage

Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016) How much should a director’s personal history count when judging his or her work? We cinephiles just confronted this question with the recent release of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, for which the man’s past history of rape allegations posed a problem. Or not, depending on how one answers the initial … Continue reading Professing Pacifism, “Hacksaw Ridge” Champions Carnage